There have been a couple of postings in the last few days of problems with MSTS which may be caused by having too many consists. The optimum number seems to be 899 and more than this causes problems for some people (including me)Using Route Control I have carried out a slimming down exercise to clear out the consists not used. I also used it to slim down the Trainset folder as, although the number of locos and wagons does not seem to be relevant, the more you have increases the time it takes for MSTS to load.The way I do it is as follows:Rename the TRAINS folder TRAINSOLDCreate a new TRAINS folder with the subfolders CONSISTS and TRAINSETRun Route Control. You should now get a very lengthy report including a list of the missing consists.Highlight the missing consists and print using File > Print > SelectionGo through the consists folder in TRAINSOLD and move the missing consists on the list back to TRAINS\CONSISTSRun Route Control again to make sure you have moved all the required consists back to the correct folderAssuming there are no missing consists then highlight the MISSING LOCOMOTIVES and print as before. Do NOT print the Missing Wagons at this stage as there will be items in it such as tenders and wagons/carriages that are in the Locomotive foldersMove the missing locomotives back to the TRAINS\TRAINSET folderRun Route Control again and after making sure you missed no locomotives print out the MISSING WAGONS the same way as you did the locomotivesIMPORTANT – do not forget to also move any alias folders, common cab and sound folders, the default trains and the DEFAULT folder Run Route Control again and if you have done everything correctly you will have a clean sheet.What is left in the TRAINSOLD folder is what you do not require. Last time I did it there was over 1.50GB left in the folder. Enough room for new routes especially PO&N6 when it is finished. MSTS will also probably load a lot quicker as well.It works for me and there is no reason why it shouldn’t for you. If you screw up don’t blame me.I expect this can be done with Route Riter as well but I haven’t worked that one out yet. This should also work perfectly well with Route Control Lite.If you got this far, thanks for reading. Hopefully it will help someone.Bill
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